1st Edition
Reconstructing Italy The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era
By Stephanie Zeier Pilat
Copyright 2014
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand... Read more
Introduction: Reconstructing Italy; I: The Development of the Ina-Casa Plan; 1: The Development of the Ina-Casa Plan; 2: Envisioning a New Italy: The Projects Office of Ina-Casa; II: The Results of the Plan; 3: Building Community: The Urban Planning and Design of Ina-Casa; 4: Building on Tradition: Appropriations of Local Histories in the Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa; 5: Inside the Homes of Ina-Casa; III: The Reception and Legacy of Ina-Casa; 6: Life in the Neighborhoods and Homes of Ina-Casa; 7: The Critical Reception of Ina-Casa; Epilogue: An Architectural Legacy of Ina-Casa
Biography
Stephanie Zeier Pilat is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. Her research examines points of intersection between twentieth-century politics and architecture.
